Companies are showing shareholders with record amounts of cash through dividends and buybacks. How can investors benefit from this trend? Barron’s columnist Jack Hough joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.

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... ay ay mm mm ... these are showering shareholders with record amounts of cash through dividends and buybacks ... how can investors benefit from this trend ... Barron's columnist Jack Kallis here to offer three stock showing them should hovering over here ... and ... here I actually was ... so this your prices of risen quickly over the past year or twenty ... two percent or so ... dividends have risen as quickly to the yield market as states in ... which share repurchase pending the other main way companies return cash to shareholders that has risen faster than the market ... so if we define healed as dividends plus money spent on share repurchases ... the markets meals total payout yield has actually increased forecasters around four point seven percent right now ... that's higher than you get an investment grade corporate bonds ... J P Morgan points out a recent note ... that the fastest growth has been in the cyclical companies I like technology ... aam Darcy pay more to shareholders in some of the defensive names right now the consumer staples and such ... I ... be suspicious about three purses are because as we know those two full on pretty quickly at the economists also ... heard David Ward says ... we take a look for companies that have room to increase their spending whether its repurchases or dividends and they've got ... a few ideas ... see you point out three stocks to watch the ice arena at Occidental Petroleum is out one of them it's not the best performer in terms of big oil right now this company is due for some type of ... big ... it's a restructuring turnaround effort you know it analysts on Wall Street are looking for some time announced either late this year ... or early next year about selling assets ... are the countries already cutting costs and then some people say that they're there could be a repurchase program as was his biggest five billion dollars was about seven percent ... of the stock price rewarded get a dividend yield is two point nine percent could pick up a lot in terms of ... money returned from share repurchases in coming years or so said another performer but has potential of the size of an amount that has more potential than peers at this point RI Wells Disney is another one ranked Disney now Disney is not especially keen to my eyes but it's got this phone is stable of brands of them and make time to catch with everything from Kermit the frog yes he and ... they do have good growth potential ... as a new Disneyland going up in Shanghai I'm not an expert on ... China toward the entertainment business I think we did Disneyland in China in in Shanghai I think you sell lots tickets as as I understand that some are spreading their investing money right now wants and growth initiatives ... aam you know it was for things the dividends only one point two percent expense forces much on share repurchases and could double its spending their next year ... so that's the key rate doubling the buyback in Lansing and ... it has more women other copies and got to the last one Honeywell ... Honeywell is just the ... U S economic recovery story it's going well on growth and forests here on ... air travel in ... the home building with the home climate systems ... European cars have not come around yet and we see growth there there will be further remanded for for markets this year ... you get two percent dividend yield honey is not noodles not known for share repurchases ... I don't suck many times in the bed dividend is only a third of profits seek to be due for an increase that last one ... was October of last year so ... look for maybe a dividend increase in the near future